Fitness Adventures

My new trainer, IronMom Robin, told me to meet her at the pool the other day. The outside pool. So I whined because it was about 58 degrees, which seems too cold for hanging out at the pool. But then she chirped “oh, you’ll be warm in the water, don’t worry!” So of course I […]

My new trainer Robin is an IronMom. Like, for real. She’s tough, and I wouldn’t want to meet her in a dark alley. But if I had to be in a dark alley, I’d want to have her with me, to beat up the bad guys. I’m scared to death of dark alleys, though, so […]

I met Kara Richardson Whitely at the FitBloggin 10 conference last spring in Baltimore. She told me about how climbing mountains changed her life. In December of 1996, she weight 360 pounds. She dreamed of climbing mountains, she said, but she was lost in her own body. And then, she wrote down what she wanted […]

I think I just got hijacked. My friend Scott, the Ironman, told me to meet him at the pool last night, where he introduced me to Robin, who’s a Triathlon coach, and writes the IronMom blog. And then she told me she loves my blog and wants to train me. For a triathlon. As in, […]

Remember when my friend Scott, the Ironman, told me I was going to train for a mini-triathlon called The Beaver Freezer? Yeah, I’m trying to forget too. It should come as no surprise to any of us that Scott’s a mechanical engineer. The problem with guys like Scott is they’re tenacious and they don’t forget […]

More fun at the Eugene Women’s Half: Some of you may remember when I had tea with Sarah Bowen Shea back in Bend, OR. She’s a writer and a runner and a mom. And a marathoner. And she wrote a book, “Run Like a Mother” with her fellow Runner’s World writer, Dimity McDowell. And now […]

Dear Julie: It was so nice to talk to you last night. I’m very excited about us working together to achieve your goals of qualifying for and racing the Ironman World Championships in Kona next year! I’ll be in Kona in a couple of weeks and I’ll be sure to check out the course for […]

Besides the not-being-able-to-breathe-under-water thing, swimming can be pretty relaxing. It’s just me and the water and my breath, and the muffled sound of my own splashing. Without any extra outside sounds to distract me, I start noticing how much my mind wanders through and around all the conversations I have with myself. Today I was […]

Marcia swears I laughed at her when she tripped in the hallway at Jefferson Jr. High and broke her arm back in 1978. I was laughing with her, in that hey-did-you-see-that-guy-slip-on-the-banana-peel? way, it’s just she didn’t know it because she was trying not to cry. And there was no banana. So now that we’re grown-ups […]

I know some of you are new, and since I ported over to WordPress, I have not tagged my posts to make it easier to search by subject. So, here are a few reader favorites, by category. General Ridiculousness: Cooking with @juliejulie and the ShakeWeight – Just because someone had to do it! Traveling to […]

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I'm a 43 year old mommy who works in the tech industry, and runs. Sometimes. My mantra? "Try, not cry!"
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